Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in Harmony
It’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
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(Beware cynicism)
Wow, four lies in just a two lines of text.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
more…
What makes a culture “continuous”?
How can Australian cultures be older than the cultures associated with the places where the first Australians came from?
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
more…
(Beware cynicism)
Wow, four lies in just a two lines of text.
It only seems to have four statements. I don’t see how they can all be “lies”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
more…
What makes a culture “continuous”?
How can Australian cultures be older than the cultures associated with the places where the first Australians came from?
Well for example people who currently live along the route the first Australians travelled tens of thousands years ago to arrive in Australia do not speak the same languages now as they did then. Aboriginal Australians at British settlement largely did.
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
more…
What makes a culture “continuous”?
How can Australian cultures be older than the cultures associated with the places where the first Australians came from?
Well for example people who currently live along the route the first Australians travelled tens of thousands years ago to arrive in Australia do not speak the same languages now as they did then. Aboriginal Australians at British settlement largely did.
What records do we have of the languages spoken by the first arrivals in Australia?
Surely there are African tribes that would have at least as good a claim on their culture being “continuous” (whatever that means).
The Rev Dodgson said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Rev Dodgson said:What makes a culture “continuous”?
How can Australian cultures be older than the cultures associated with the places where the first Australians came from?
Well for example people who currently live along the route the first Australians travelled tens of thousands years ago to arrive in Australia do not speak the same languages now as they did then. Aboriginal Australians at British settlement largely did.
What records do we have of the languages spoken by the first arrivals in Australia?
Surely there are African tribes that would have at least as good a claim on their culture being “continuous” (whatever that means).
Without records as such but the commonalities of Aboriginal languages and the movement of people in slow waves point to Aboriginal languages being ancient. There are some differences that point towards more recent people movements but this would have been over decades and centuries so languages would have evolved and not substantially changed at the time.
The Bushmen of southern Africa are recognised as being of a particularly ancient lineage too.
Witty Rejoinder said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in HarmonyIt’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more.
more…
What makes a culture “continuous”?
How can Australian cultures be older than the cultures associated with the places where the first Australians came from?
Well for example people who currently live along the route the first Australians travelled tens of thousands years ago to arrive in Australia do not speak the same languages now as they did then. Aboriginal Australians at British settlement largely did.
According to Wikepedia: The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates.
The article indicates a possible, but disputed link to some Papuan dialects. Otherwise the languages are not clearly related to any languages outside Australia.